Job 30:26
But when I looked for good, only evil came, and when I waited for the light, all that came was darkness.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
In Context
25Didn't I weep for those having hard times? Didn't I grieve at what the poor suffered?
27Inside I am in turmoil, it never stops; I face days of despair.
Cross References
Job 3:25For all that I feared has happened to me; everything that I dreaded has come upon me.
Job 18:18They are thrown out of light into darkness, driven from the world.
Job 23:17Yet I'm still here despite the dark—even though I can't see through the utter darkness.”
Psalms 97:11Light shines on those who do good, giving joy to those who live right.
Isaiah 59:9So that's why we don't have justice, and we don't do what's right. We look for the light, but only find the dark; we look for bright light, but we walk in deep darkness.
Jeremiah 14:19Have you really rejected Judah? Do you hate Zion so much? Why have you wounded us so badly that we can't be healed? We hoped for peace, but instead nothing good has come; we hoped for a time of healing, but instead there was only sudden terror.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →